HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falli, Oregon Thursday, November 7, 1963 PAGE-IB
toward Takes SAW
Award Dn American
BOSTON a'Pl The Ameri
can League's Most Valuable
Player award remained almost
the exclusive properly of the
New York Yankees today when
Elston Howard won the 1963
honors in a landslide.
The 33-jear-old Yankee catch
er collected 15 of 20 first place
votes in balloting by selected
members of the Baseball Writ
ers Association of America
BBWAA and finished 100
points ahead of runnerup Al
Kaline of the Detroit Tigers.
The results of the voting
were announced here by Hy
Hurwitz, national secretary of
theJ association. Two members
in each of the 10 American
League cities participated in
the balloting.
In scoring his clear-cut vic
tory over outfielder Kaline,
Howard became the fourth suc
cessive Yankee to capture the
coveted award and Hie eighth
New York w inner in the last 10
seasons.
SucPeeds Mickey Mantle
Howard succeeded Yankee
outfielder Mickey Mantle, the
1962 &VP selection. Roger
Maris won the award in I960
and 1961 and Yogi Berra, the
Yankees' new manager, cap
tured the title three times, in
1951, 1954 and 19gi.
0ly the t!cird catcher to win
MVP honors,, Howard totaled
243 points to 148 for ialine.
Yankee pitcher Whitcv Ford
finished third at 123 points and
was second only to Howard in
first place votes with three.
Kaline and Yankee Tom Trcsh,
who was 11th in the point to-
tals. netted the remaining No. 1
votes.
American League home run
champion Harmon Killebrew of
Minnesota won a close three
way battle for the fourth spot,
his 83 points barely edging Bos
ton relief pitching ace Dick Ra
datz 1841 and American League
batting champion Carl Yas
trzemski of the Red Sox (81 1.
The point totals dropped off
rapidly from there with 29
players earning mention in the
balloting.
Top Kidding Catcher
Howard, who didn't get a sin
gle vote in 1962 though he bai
ted .279. was named on all 20
ballots this year after a season
in which he hit .287 to finish
12th in the league. He had 27
home runs, drove in 101 runs,
and led the league's catchers in
fielding with a .994 average.
KaSne, who was mentioned
on 19 of the 20 ballots, ranked
scond in the American League
hitting race with a .312 aver
age. The Detroit outfielder, who
was rested by the Tigers dur
ing the late stages of the season,
had 27 homers and 101 runs bat
ted in.
Fordo led the ASieriean
League in games won (24i, per
centage (24-7 for .774), and in
nings pitched I26?i. Killebrew,
who wcis third in the voting a
year ago, was the league's top
slugger with 45 homers though
he batted only .258.
Though he did not qualify
among the official league lex
ers onQthe basis of finings
pitched, Rariatz had the cir
cuit's best earned run average
of 1.98 while posting a 15-6 rec
ord in 66 games of relief. Yas
trzemski's .321 average led the
league by nine full points to
earn him mention on 17 of the
20 ballots.
Howard's choice meant that
members of the New York
Yankees have won MVP hon
ors 16 times in the 33-year his
tory of the award. Detroit is
New York's nearest challenger
for most MVP's with a total of
six selections.
Selected Before Series
Howard's selection came in
voting conducted even before
World Series play when he led
Yankee regulars by getting five
hits off the Los Angeles Dodg
er pitching staff. In addition,
Howard was struck out only
once by Dodger southpaw
Sandy Koufax, who posted a
World Series strikeout record
and last week was namcct the
National League's Most Valua
ble Player. .
It was Howard who spoiled
Koufax's World Series no-hit
bid and who drove in a run to
break the Dodger southpaw's
shutout try in the opening
game.
A nine-season Yankee veter
an, How ard j)ioke into organ
ized ball as an outfielder with
Muskegon of the Central
League in 1950 and had his mi
nor league career interrupted
by two years in the service.
He won the International
League's Most Valuable Player
award while playing at Toronto
after he was ordered convert
ed to a calcher by Casey Sten
gel in 1952. a
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catching poses this year. The Yankee standout was named Most Valuable Player in the
American League today. UPI Telephoto
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SEATTLE i UPI. -Television
Station KIRO TV Wednesday
protested University of Wash
ington Athletic Director and
Football Coach Jim Owens' re
fusal to allow lesecasts here of
Washington's remaining games
against California. I'CLA and
Washington Slate.
Station Manager Lincoln W.
M:llcr said Owens' d c c i s i on
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KIRO-TV. an affiliate of the
Columbia Broadcasting System,
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CBS has exclusive rights
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AA policy discourages "tele
vision exposure" of a member
team in more than one national
and one regional telecast per
season.
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Force was televised nationally
and the Washinglon-USC game
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Owens wrote that last year
the NCAA approved only six ex
ceptions to the two-telecast pol
icy. One of tlie exceptions was
the Washington Washington
Slale game in Spokane.
Tlie coach added that the uni
versity, by contract, would have
to make refunds to stations
holding radio and television film
rights to Washington football
games. ,
named Back of the Week and
Jim Dent of Oregon College
lineman of the week by Oregon
Collegiate Conference coaches
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Hood carried Ihe ball 18 times
for 133 yards in SOC's Saturday
loss lo Chico State. Dent helped
hold champion Portland Stale to
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Bob Battle of Oregon Tech
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six touchdowns, although Mike
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a higher percentage and more
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yards and 11 touchdowns.
Doug Olsen of SOC led the
scoring wilh 65 points on 7
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Jim Hollingsworth of Portland
State. Steve Jackson of OCE
and Vic Ventura of OTI each
had 25 pass receptions with Hoi
lingsworth's 451 yards in front.
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at Pasadena, Calif., was played
in 1902: Michigan vs. Stanford.
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